On leadership: The secret that is hidden in plain sight
The capacity to lead depends on trust. As a leader keeping trust alive is your primary responsibility for without it, you cannot lead. Trust is the air in a healthy organisational culture; it is the very currency of leadership. This is the secret that is hidden in...
Curious about failure: 6 things leaders need to keep in mind
One of the smartest things you can do as a leader is to be curious about failure. Sounds like the entirely ‘wrong’ emphasis doesn’t it? But let me explain what I mean. In business today there is a lot of talk about the need for innovation and the subject of innovation...
30 ways technology will change education between now and 2030
While doing some reading to prepare for a workshop with a group of head teachers last week, I came across this very well researched and presented future timeline of potential educational changes we can expect technology to bring in the next two decades. I don't agree...
The Enneagram: A Tool To Understand Diversity
If you have never come across this business tool before, you might be asking what exactly the Enneagram is. Most simplistically the Enneagram is a 9-point system, which can be used to analyse the spectrum of personality types that could exist inside your business or...
Can we really predict the future?
This is the question a British journalist asked me today. Specifically, he wanted to know if it was possible to predict industry trends thirty years into the future. Here is the gist of my brief reply: Looking thirty years into the future is notoriously hard to do,...
Tomorrow’s Leaders and what to do about it today!
In TomorrowToday we talk a great deal about the generations. Generational Theory is a framework we have shared in some 44 countries and I don't think there can be any consultancy that can claim that kind of global footprint when it comes to this particular theory. Of...
How Does The Enneagram Help With Self-Observation?
Earlier this week I posted a blog about self-observation. Click here if you would like to read that first. The blog briefly explains what self-observation is and why we would want to use this skill to improve our business productivity. If you are not sure what the...
Miss America: Throwing down the gauntlet to leaders
The storm of abuse over the selection of Nina Davuluri as Miss America shows just how short America is in being the society and country Martin Luther King dreamt of all those years ago. The virile stirred up by Miss Davuluri’s selection reveals a dark undercurrent of...
Creating a Living Legacy
Franklin D Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States of America wrote; “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little”. He died shortly before the end...
How you see the cow might just determine your future!
There are three company directors on a train going to Scotland. One of them heads-up marketing, one is in Human Resources and the other is the Financial Director. Out the window they see a field in which there is a brown cow standing parallel to the train. “Look”,...
The Enneagram, A Tool For Self- Observation
The French philosopher, Marcel Proust, said that the true journey of discovery does not consist of searching for new landscapes, but in having new eyes I loved that quote and agree with him. We have all heard that saying when you change the way you look at things,...
The ART versus the SCIENCE of business.
Earlier this year I was privileged to hear Seth Godin speak in London. The talk was part of his new book promotional tour The Icarus Deception. In the book and during the talk Seth asked the question "how high are you prepared to fly to deliver your art?" He argues...
Book review: The Exceptional Speaker
Public speaking is a vital skill for anyone anywhere to master. I do it professionally - and it's a privilege to do so. But I do realise how daunting and difficult public speaking can be, and I do what I can to help people develop their speaking ability. It was...
7 Terrible Management Fads That Just Won’t Die – from Inc.com
A few months ago, I read the Inc.com blog post on "7 Terrible Management Fads That Just Won't Die". I have spent some time thinking about it, and wanting to engage with it. It's a provocative read, and challenges some management mindsets that seem entrenched in...
On Leadership: Difference matters
Recently Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech has celebrated its 50th anniversary. In the speech King found a way to further unlock America’s founding promise that, “All men are created equal” and have the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”....
Why Once-Off Training Is Not Sustainable
The hardest part about my job is that clients want me to perform miracles. Whilst I aim to please, sometimes it is just not possible to do in one day what they want. What most clients want is for me to take often complex situations, difficult dynamics and career-long...
Leadership: Yada, yada, yada…
Recently I had the misfortune to be trapped in a room in which an executive was enthusiastically ‘rallying the troops’. I am sure he thought that he was doing a good job and that those present were being suitably inspired with his every word. Fact is, I am pretty sure...
Signpost Video: Executive Education and meddling clients
Today's HR and L&D professionals are under immense pressure to deliver real return on investment to their businesses from executive education. But some of the ways they're trying to do this are counterproductive. We know of many companies who have engaged some of the...
Women @ Work
It is the first work day of September, which means it is officially the end of 'Woman's Month'. However, I hope this does not mean that questions around how we can best maximise the benefits that the women inside our businesses bring to the workplace have been put...
BrainBoosters making a difference to the next generation
Here at TomorrowToday, we're very proud of one of our ex-colleagues, Lynda Smith. Lynda is a serial entrepreneur who left TomorrowToday a number of years to start The Refirement Network, an organisation focused on providing services and support to Baby Boomers who...